Jeremiah Trautman
Jeremiah Trautman
German physician who performed the first completely documented cesarean section, in Wittenberg, Germany, on April 26, 1610. The mother is reported to have lived 25 days and then died, most likely from an infection of the genitals following the procedure. The child lived for nine years.
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